Category: Podcasts

Art Chan

Senior Partner Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. With over 25 years experience in the technology industry, Art has worked at a number of Fortune 500 companies as well as having founded and operated an applied data analytics company for over a decade. He’s worked at Opsware/Loudcloud (acquired by HP), one of the first companies to offer Software as a Service computing with an Infrastructure as a Service model. At AWS, he works with APN Partners, helping guide and develop their technical practice. For fun, Art is a marathon runner and a 6x Ironman triathlon finisher.

Poorvi Nigotiya

Poorvi is a passionate problem solver, an Agile methodologist and an Engineering Manager at Encora, based out of Ahmedabad, India. She is responsible for Product Engineering and is actively involved in project delivery and process improvement. With more than 12 years of experience in the IT industry, she has led the development of enterprise application in various domains including E-commerce, Fintech and Energy. Her expertise lies in back-end system designing.

Poorvi holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from JSSATE, Noida, India. She is an associate level AWS Certified and as a cloud practitioner she has designed cloud-based architecture for various applications.

Art Chan

Senior Partner Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. With over 25 years experience in the technology industry, Art has worked at a number of Fortune 500 companies as well as having founded and operated an applied data analytics company for over a decade. He’s worked at Opsware/Loudcloud (acquired by HP), one of the first companies to offer Software as a Service computing with an Infrastructure as a Service model. At AWS, he works with APN Partners, helping guide and develop their technical practice. For fun, Art is a marathon runner and a 6x Ironman triathlon finisher.

Gustavo Romero

Principal DevOps Engineer at Encora. Gustavo is a seasoned Lead Cloud / DevOps engineer with a focus on AWS, Azure Cloud and security compliance over the last 10 years. A true AWS champion, he has earned every associate & professional level AWS certification, and also holds several Microsoft Azure Certifications. His broad client experiences include migration of on-premises applications to the Cloud, implementation of CI/CD processes within Cloud environments, container orchestration, creation of “Infrastructure As Code” templates for infrastructure deployments, implementation of SOC 2 Type 2/ISO 27001 security protocols for SaaS applications, and broad deployment of automation strategies to drive scalable impacts for clients. He has a BSc in Systems Engineering from Universidad Catolica Boliviana, as well a MSc in IT Security from Escuela Militar de Ingenieria.

Sterling Douglass is the Co-Founder & CEO of Chowly, a leading restaurant technology company helping restaurants streamline their POS integrations to expand and maintain a diverse set of off-premise capabilities. He has extensive experience as an entrepreneur, leading start-ups and building solutions for long-standing unsolved problems.

Sterling began his career in data analytics as an actuary in management consulting. His experience in data and client relationships, coupled with his passion for entrepreneurship in the hospitality industry, led him to establish Chowly.

When running into problems getting his mobile ordering app off the ground in 2014, Sterling set out to solve the broader challenge he and many other apps faced: POS Integration. Realizing the bigger players like Grubhub and DoorDash were struggling to streamline their processes, he started Chowly in 2015 to make it easier for small and mid-sized restaurants to leverage the best-in-class technologies they needed to succeed. “We realized this wasn’t just broken for us; it was holding the entire restaurant industry back.”

Today restaurants use Chowly’s integration system to increase revenue, improve operational flow, and save on labor costs. Annually Chowly processes over $2 billion in orders for its 12,000+ restaurant partners.

Daniëlle is the VP of Finance of Paddle, a payments infrastructure for SaaS business.

Born in the Netherlands, she went on vacation to Aruba with her parents and never went back. She later moved to the US to live and complete her university. She completed two degrees simultaneously: a bachelor’s in International Community Development and a bachelor’s in Business Administration.

After university, Daniëlle spent 8 years working in the US Hospitality business across the Americas (North, Central, South & Caribbean). She then relocated to the Netherlands to join Booking.com where she held several senior regional and global roles over 4 years, leading numerous innovation and automation projects. Wanting to dive deeper into the tech company space, she stepped into her first start/scale-up, Messagebird.com, as the Head of Finance Operations. At Messagebird she set up and built the operations role, scaled the company globally, and led several company acquisition integrations.

How is conversational AI transforming the customer experience?

Jaya Kishore Reddy Gollareddy is building technology at Yellow AI, a leading conversation AI platform for enterprises to automate customer experience. He is a tech entrepreneur with over 13 years of experience in distributed systems, design thinking, and rapid prototyping in various industries including enterprise cloud, e-commerce, and SaaS.

Joe Baffone leads the overall business development, strategy, and culture of Annexus Health. Prior to co-founding Annexus Health, Joe spent 7 years as a principal at onPoint Oncology, where he concepted, built, implemented, and monetized cancer access solutions. Earlier, Joe spent 20+ years working in life sciences.

A majority of his time was dedicated to the business of oncology, where he established strategies and led teams dedicated to contracting, pricing, reimbursement, payer, and access functions, as well as establishing and maintaining strategic relationships with key oncology organizations.

Art Chan

Senior Partner Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. With over 25 years experience in the technology industry, Art has worked at a number of Fortune 500 companies as well as having founded and operated an applied data analytics company for over a decade. He’s worked at Opsware/Loudcloud (acquired by HP), one of the first companies to offer Software as a Service computing with an Infrastructure as a Service model. At AWS, he works with APN Partners, helping guide and develop their technical practice. For fun, Art is a marathon runner and a 6x Ironman triathlon finisher.

Josue Murillo Leon

Senior DevOps Engineer @ Encora. He is one of the co-leaders of Encora’s Cloud Services Technology Practice. Josue has extensive experience leading teams, from multi-disciplinary Agile teams to DevOps-only teams.

Josue’s expertise is in the AWS Cloud platform, with over 5 years of experience creating Cloud solutions across a wide variety of client contexts. He has experience designing and implementing Cloud-ready solutions, migrating applications to the Cloud, optimizing Cloud architectures, improving disaster recovery and data backup strategies, and implementing CI/CD solutions for the Cloud, using a combination of Cloud-only and hybrid solutions.

Susan Jeffers is a serial entrepreneur and digital marketing veteran with over a decade of experience founding and advising many consumer startups and fashion brands. She has deep passion for creating innovative and scalable products with a focus on UI/UX design. Her strength lies in bridging the gap between business and technology, while creating solutions on how to best leverage them to align expectations and attain business goals.

Susan has been part of the founding team for two retail startups responsible for digital marketing and consumer experience, one of which was acquired by theFind.​

Spencer Maid is Chief Commercial Officer at Origin Wireless, the inventor of WiFi Sensing technology enabling customers to build a wide range of smart home, health and well-being, and automotive applications. Spencer has thirty years of experience in sales, marketing, product management, and innovation/business development. He specializes in leading teams to bring innovative, quality products to commercialization that make an impact on people’s lives.

Avery Pennarun started his first startup back in university, sold it to IBM 8 years later, worked on Google Wallet and Google Fiber for several years, started several open source projects (netselect, wvdial, bup, sshuttle, popularity-contest, and others), and sometimes writes popular blog posts about systems design. His latest startup, Tailscale, aims to make the Internet work the way it was always supposed to work. How hard can it be?

It’s time for another edition of People Matters by dojo.live! Join us and our special guests Kirsten Moorefield, Melissa Ribeiro, and Anabel Montiel to discuss how pivotal work environment and employee wellbeing are to turnover and hiring.

In an employee’s market, how pivotal is work environment and employee wellbeing to turnover and hiring?

Kirsten is the Co-Founder of Cloverleaf.me – a B2B SaaS platform that provides automated team coaching – where she oversees all things Product and People. She often speaks on the power of diversity of thought and psychologically safe cultures, from her TEDx talk, to her podcast “People are Complicated.” While building Cloverleaf, Kirsten has also been building her young family in Cincinnati, Ohio where she lives with her husband and two young kids.

Melissa Ribeiro has 20+ years of progressive HR leadership experience across a variety of industries and organizations, including broad international roles and significant depth in Latin America. In her role as Encora’s Chief People Officer, Melissa provides strategic leadership to the People & Culture and Talent Acquisition functions to support the business through a period of progressive transformation. Prior roles are Chief People Officer at Actian Corporation, Global Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Deluxe Entertainment, Global Vice President of Human Resources at Opera Mediaworks, and the Head of HR for Yahoo U.S. and Latin America.

Anabel Montiel is a proactive People & Culture executive with a 17-year track record in people growth, organizational development and corporate social responsibility. She has been working with Encora for 8 years. Throughout this time, she has strengthened the company’s people-centered culture through her deep interest in people and their wellbeing. She is also an avid promoter of freedom in the workplace and exploring participative approaches to connect individuals with collective purposes.

Steve Van Lare is Vice-President of Engineering at Anjuna Security. Steve has 30 years of experience in enterprise software. He was formerly Vice-President of Engineering at Automation Anywhere. In the security area, Steve was Vice-President of Engineering at 41st Parameter, a leader in fraud detection. Previously, he was Vice-President at Oracle and Agile Software.

Steve has a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University.

Joel King Kasr is the founder & Chief Scientist of KaJ Labs Foundation. KaJ Labs is a decentralized research organization focusing on Artificial Intelligence and blockchain technology. We’re driven to create innovative products that work for the greater good around the globe.

Joel oversees all KaJ Labs’ research and proposed the LEP100 token standard for Lithosphere and other novel components of Lithosphere.

In 2018, Joel was named as the go-to industry insider for mobile apps by the Business Journal.

Is collaboration the key to building ethical AI solutions of the future?

Rudradeb is Founder and CEO of Omdena – A bottom-up global collaborative platform for building impactful AI solutions. Omdena has executed 300+ projects with impact organizations from 55+ countries involving 10000+ AI Engineers and Data scientists from 100+ countries. Omdena has also 80+ local chapters across 5 continents. For his work in Omdena, he has been named top 10 inspiring CEOs in 2020 by Analytics Insight.

Joe Miller is the General Manager at Pocketalk, a language translation technology, which is applicable for EducationTech, HealthTech, TravelTech and more.

Joe is a Silicon Valley marketing and sales executive with 20 years experience bringing new products to market and has served as a senior executive for notable companies such as DirecTV, TiVo and eero. His areas of expertise include: crafting go-to-market plans, building teams and managing day-to-day business operations. Joe’s roles at Pocketalk include running the U.S. operation and bringing the product to market for the Americas, UK and Europe.